Friday, May 2, 2014

Kindling to Cornell 2: The Penny-a-Worder (1958), by Cornell Woolrich

Oh, this is a good one! And you can get "The Penny-a-Worder" for only 99 cents on Kindle (it's also included, along with "Murder, Obliquely," in the Francis M. Nevins edited Woolrich collection Tonight, Somewhere in New York (2005).

I'll be writing in detail about this classic short story later today and I hope to follow-up Sunday with a review of Black Alibi (1942), the third of Woolrich's "black" crime novels.

Every time I read Woolrich I find myself thinking it's been too long since I read him! I also hope to talk a little next week about the mysterious author's life and what we really know about him.

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Author of "Masters of the 'Humdrum' Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961"
"Magisterial"--Michael Dirda
"Edgar Committee, Mystery Writers of America, take note!"--Allen J. Hubin
"This should be a certain Edgar nominee"--Jon L. Breen, Mystery Scene
"Clues and Corpses: The Detective Fiction and Mystery Criticism of Todd Downing."
"Mysteries Unlocked: Essays in Honor of Douglas G. Greene" (editor and contributor)
"The Spectrum of English Murder: The Detective Fiction of Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher and GDH and Margaret Cole"
and the Edgar-nominated "Murder in the Closet: Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall" (editor and contributor)